Activity Quotes

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Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe. — Maria Mitchell
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study… — Matthew Arnold
It is called enlightenment, nirvana, God, truth, call it what you will. There is no activity other than the eternal activities of the universe, perfect… — Frederick Lenz
In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their… — Samuel Adams
And that is what radio-activity is, a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe. — Walter Russell
An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise… — Edward Everett Hale
We are born strangers in a strange land, and remain so. Travel simply reminds us of this essential truth. The transmission of a powerful story,… — Richard Halliburton
If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world… — Karl Ove Knausgard
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away… — Thomas Merton
Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual. — H. L. Mencken
Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter the field of… — Yasuhiko Kimura
At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly skillful… — Edward Lucie-Smith
There are always meaningful songs for somebody. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people are washing their… — Leonard Cohen
Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where… — Marcus Aurelius
What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has… — Marcus Aurelius
The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting… — George Will
The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior… — George Will
Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception,… — Paul Valery
Here is an eternal truth. Life cannot be divided into compartments in some which God is involved and in others of which he is not… — William Barclay

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